5 Days Amazon Jungle Adventure Tour

Very interesting tour showing various types of attractions in the Amazon. Highlight is the interaction with the dolphins and the indigenous tribe. Lunch was good but with opportunities for improvement in the organization of the arrival of boats at the restaurant.

O atendimento da equipe e guias foram sensacionais. São pessoas alegres e atenciosas. Eu e minha família nos divertimos muito nos passeios . Encontro das águas, tribo indígena, boto cor de rosa, pesca do pirarucu, focagem no jacare, anavilhanas, Grutas e Cachoeiras de Presidente Figueiredo, Musa, Inpa.

I did two activities with Amazon Amazing Tours: 5 day jungle trip + Ayahuasca Ceremony in Manaus. First, I will tell the good stuff and then why I have decided to give such rating to this agency. + trip to the jungle and back was ok. + Majority (ca 80%) of things were as per the agency's description. + first part of the Ayahuasca Ceremony was ok. Negative: - program for a 5-day trip was repetitive (if you do 3 night trip to jungle you will get to experience everything there is to offer) - Amazon Amazing Tours will give a description of the program plus give you instructions on what to bring, yet a good part of that description is misleading and incorrect. When asking the actual guide in the jungle when the activities that were described/promised by the agency Amazon Amazing Tours will be conducted, the tour guide told me that they do not do them anymore. He tried his best to somehow do them (since I insisted), but quite frankly, they were not as expected and not worth the trip. Examples of the activities: building of traps, tree climbing, visiting of the Indian tribe. They sound great, but execution was so basic, that it just wasn’t worth it. Also, me and the remaining tourists were instructed to buy some equipment (mosquito nets), but were completely redundant. When I asked for a reimbursement of these costs the agency first tried lying, then after I clearly presented the facts, became more aggressive in their manners and went to a straight refusal of cost reimbursement. So if you go with this agency, agree that you pay them certain % of the package costs only after it is concluded. This way you will be able to evaluate if they really delivered everything that was promised. - the lodge personnel is acting slightly inappropriately if you do not buy additional drinks from them. They assume it is your duty to leave more money in the lodge by buying their drinks. I understand they want to make money, but if and why I (the visitor) does, is up to me. I have already paid for the stay, so I am not obliged to pay more unless I decide to do so. - Ayahuasca experience: the shaman (located in district 11 in Manaus) literally kicked us out of his place at 10PM when we were still significantly under the influence of the substance. If not for some lucky turn of events we could have ended in a very bad, if not life threatening, situation. Shaman's response as to why he did not let us stay until the substance wore off: "The agency (Amazon Amazing Tours) did not pay me for you to stay here longer." Bottom line - I would give 4 stars, if I would not be put into such danger during the Ayahuasca Experience.